Search

Saturday, July 22, 2017

PSVR has sold almost 2 million units.

  1. Boards
  2. PlayStation 4 
  3. PSVR has sold almost 2 million units.
Gryffindor1 3 hours ago#1
https://vrscout.com/news/vr-market-adoption-2017/

As a self-proclaimed VR stat geek, I was blown away by one of these numbers. Particularly that Playstation VR had more than 1.8 million sales.

To a non-VR insider following the industry, that might seem anemic and a particularly low sales number. But let’s put that into perspective.

The Playstation VR system was launched in October of 2016, and before it’s one year mark it has made over 770 million dollars. In the history of video game accessories, the Xbox Kinect was the fastest growing accessory in history. If we calculate that everyone paid full price at $150 (which they didn’t) the Kinect grossed 1.5 billion dollars it’s first year. Think about that. The Playstation VR headset has grossed at worst half of what the Xbox Kinect made, and it still has at least 3 months of sales left! Even at a much higher price point than Kinect, there is still tremendous monetization coming just from the hardware side for Playstation VR.

What is equally as impressive is that Playstation VR has managed to grow close to 100 percent in two quarters of sales.

Numerous public figures noted that by the end of 2016 there will beclose to a million playstation VR head sets in circulation. If this growth rate holds true, by Q3 of 2018 Playstation VR willhave 10 million VR users.

Let that sink in too. In a year and a few months Playstation could have 10 million VR users. I mention this because this is the general statistic that numerous AAA companies mention they would need to invest in building VR games.


Take this with a grain of salt as the source is from SuperData. But PSVR sells around 400k units a quarter, so it might not be far off. During the winter when Sony plans a big marketing push, expect a huge number of sales.

No comments:

Post a Comment